Tag: muscles
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Protein Powder and Your Skin: What You Need to Know
You hit the gym, eat plenty of fruit and veggies, get your rest and take advantage of some many men’s skincare products now on the market. It’s all part of a healthy lifestyle that should leave you looking and feeling your best, right? You’d think so, but if you’re regularly adding protein powder to your…
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Love Handles? Learn These Scientific Fat Loss Methods To Remove Them
Love handles and fat loss are common issues and tend to get worse as we get older. The problem is that our metabolisms begin to slow down and usually our activity levels decrease with them. As a result, we don’t burn as many calories as we once did. That’s why it’s extra important that you…
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Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) Training: Is It Hype Or Hope?
Look up EMS training, and you’ll find it hailed by one lean and lithe celebrity after the other, including Heidi Klum, Elizabeth Hurley, and Madonna. But can you really replace your five-times-a-week, hour-long gym sessions with just 20 minutes of electronic muscle stimulation and simple resistance movements? As it turns out – depending on what…
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Peas Are The Little Green Veggies You Need More Of
Peas are not just the plain little green vegetables you always thought they were. Remember when mom forced you to eat them. She was seriously onto something! I bet you’ve never thought of adding them to your smoothie either? Or better yet, that they’re filled with loads of healthy protein and fiber. These two nutrients can…
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Bodyweight Calisthenics Is A Highly Effective Workout
Bodyweight calisthenics movements, if performed correctly, can work your whole body by stimulating and building high levels of strength, flexibility, and body control. Using your own bodyweight is also a great way to teach yourself to focus more on what your body is actually doing. Plus, you won’t need to step into a gym with…
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Jump Rope Is A Seriously Underrated Total Body Workout
Jump rope is probably an activity you remember doing as a child with your schoolmates. And it’s most likely not something you’ve tried in a while. That needs to change because just 10 minutes of jumping rope can torch calories! This is by far one of the most underrated forms of exercise. Yet, it is really…
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How Much Do You Know About Your Fascia?
If your answer to our question was ‘very little’, it would be understandable. For most people, if you asked them to explain fascia, they would be unable to do so. This is because this is likely the one element of our bodies that has mostly been neglected in the study. For years, fascia was regarded…
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4 Best Ways To Improve Your Recovery After Exercise
When you exercise, your body needs some recovery time. An increase in size, strength, power and performance is often attributed to growth in lean muscle mass. But what exactly is growth, and why does it happen? Muscles grow when they are subjected to an external resistance. That resistance causes incredibly small tears within the muscle…
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What Your Blood Type Tells You About Your Health
There is a certain amount of ambiguity when it comes to understanding exactly what your blood type tells you about your health. But the truth is, you’re likely to have been told many proven facts and mistruths. So before you start developing preconceptions, you need understand what this red stuff going through your veins really is.…